Cold case disappearance of Susan Goodwin: Dying dad Don Goodwin makes heartwrenching appeal

VIDEO: “I am desperate for answers ... our lives have been destroyed.” Don Goodwin has one dying wish — to find out what happened to his daughter, suspected murder victim Susan Goodwin.

• Police believe Susan Goodwin killed by someone she knew

DON Goodwin has one dying wish — to find out what happened to his daughter, suspected murder victim Susan Goodwin.

Police today released a personal plea from the gravely ill father.

Ms Goodwin was last seen in Port Lincoln in 2002, and police investigating her disappearance believe she has been murdered.

Recorded in his hospital room in Victoria last week, Don Goodwin is urging anyone with information to speak up now.

In a tragic twist, Ms Goodwin had survived a car crash 15 years before she went missing but she lost two sisters and a brother.

Also penning a letter of appeal ‘To Whom it May Concern’, he wrote that six months ago he had a heart attack, and just three months later he found out he has cancer.

Suspected murder victim Susan ‘Suzy’ Goodwin. Picture: Supplied

Don Goodwin has made a heartwrenching appeal for information on his daughter, Suzy Goodwin. Picture: SAPOL

“Thirty years ago Suzy was in a tragic car accident … she survived but lost two sisters and only brother,” he wrote.

“Fifteen years ago we lost Suzy, believed now murdered in Port Lincoln.

“I am appealing to anyone (who) knows anything … I am desperate for answers as her remaining sister and mother need closure and some peace as our lives have been destroyed by these tragedies.”

As part of the police inquiry detectives last week travelled to country Victoria to interview friends and family who live in the Wonthaggi area.

During that trip her father made the video appeal for anyone with information to come forward to police.

“It’s been terrible,” he said of life since her disappearance. “It’s been on my mind all the time — day and night — you never get over it and it just wears you down something terrible,” Mr Goodwin says in the video.

“It’s getting worse as I’m getting older and crooker.”

Releasing the video today, police from Major Crime echoed his appeal for information.

“We are making progress and we know that even the smallest piece of information could make all the difference in this case,” Detective Superintendent Bray, officer in charge of the SAPOL Major Crime Investigation Branch, said.

A reward of up to $200,000 is available for information that leads to the recovery of Ms Goodwin’s remains or the conviction of those responsible for her disappearance and suspected murder.